The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency's chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search.
A white supremacist who murdered 10 Black people during a live-streamed supermarket rampage in New York state last year was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday during an emotional hearing that saw a man lunge for the shooter.
At least 50 people died in ethnic violence in Ethiopia's Oromia region this month, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Wednesday.
Ivory Coast on Wednesday decided to lift a nearly three-year-long closure of its land borders that had been imposed because of the Covid pandemic.
World oil demand is set to hit a record in 2023 as top consumer China emerges from Covid restrictions and air travel recovers from the pandemic, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
Ethiopia warned on Wednesday that efforts by UN-backed investigators to probe abuses committed during the war in the country's north could "undermine" the progress of a peace agreement signed last year.
Many major global firms and financial institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to deforestation do not have any policies in place to protect forests, increasing the risk for catastrophic nature loss, a report said Wednesday.
An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections in Africa and around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday.
Dozens of migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck off Libya, with only seven survivors found so far, the United Nations said Wednesday.
For the first time ever, US adults will spend more time this year watching digital video on platforms such as Netflix, TikTok and YouTube than viewing traditional television, Insider Intelligence forecast on Wednesday.
Inflation in South Africa slowed for a third consecutive month in January, dipping below seven percent after hitting a 13-year peak last year, data showed Wednesday.
Former Egyptian anti-corruption chief Hisham Geneina was released after completing a five-year prison sentence and charged under a new case on Tuesday, a human rights activist said.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that global warming could force a mass exodus "on a biblical scale" as people flee low-lying communities and called for legal frameworks to be implemented in preparation, especially for refugees.
Russia has held at least 6,000 children from Ukraine in camps aimed at re-education in what could constitute a war crime, a US study said Tuesday.
Hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams is in talks to take over as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton, media reports said on Tuesday.
Africa's most populous democracy has among the lowest number of women in office in the world, and the number of those seeking to succeed Buhari or aiming for local and national offices has fallen since 2019.
A major French mental health study has found a huge rise in the number of young people reporting depression, with the most likely cause seen as Covid-19 and restrictions to control the disease.
The Tanzanian government has banned a popular series of children's books from schools in the conservative East African country, claiming they violate local cultural norms.
A court in the West African state of Niger has ordered a Canadian-owned uranium mine in the north of the country to suspend operations after environmentalists filed a lawsuit, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.
The United States so far has no evidence that three unidentified aerial objects shot down this month were connected to China or any foreign spying program, the White House said Tuesday.
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